Automatically forward Gmail messages to another account

Y'all can choose to forward all of your new messages to another e-mail address, or only forward sure types of letters.

Set up automatic forwarding

Yous can automatically forrard your messages to some other address. You can choose to frontward all new messages, or just sure ones.

Annotation:Yous can only prepare forwarding on your computer, and non on the Gmail app. If you lot have an business relationship through work or school and have trouble, contact your administrator.

Turn automatic fowarding on or off

Notation: When your new letters are forwarded, messages from spam won't be included.

Turn on automatic forwarding

  1. On your calculator, open Gmail using the account y'all want to frontwards letters from. You can only forward messages for a single Gmail address, and not an email group or alias.
  2. In the superlative correct, click Settings Settingsand thenSee all settings.
  3. Click the Forwarding and Popular/IMAP tab.
  4. In the "Forwarding" section, click Add a forwarding address.
  5. Enter the email address yous desire to frontward messages to.
  6. Click Next and then Proceed and then OK.
  7. A verification message will exist sent to that address. Click the verification link in that message.
  8. Go dorsum to the settings page for the Gmail account you want to forward messages from, and refresh your browser.
  9. Click theForwarding and Popular/IMAP tab.
  10. In the "Forwarding" section, select Forward a re-create of incoming mail to.
  11. Choose what you desire to happen with the Gmail copy of your emails. We recommend Keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox.
  12. At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.

Turn off automated forwarding

  1. On your figurer, open Gmail using the account you want to stop forwarding messages from.
  2. In the pinnacle right, click Settings Settingsand thenMeet all settings.
  3. Click the Forwarding and Popular/IMAP tab.
  4. In the "Forwarding" section, click Disable forwarding.
  5. At the lesser, click Salve Changes.

Only forward certain kinds of messages

If you only want to frontward sure kinds of messages to another business relationship, create a filter for these messages.

When you're setting up your filter, you tin can cull what electronic mail accost to forwards these messages to.

If yous don't see an email address to forward messages to, follow the steps above to plough on forwarding.

Frontwards to multiple accounts

You can simply automatically forward all your letters to one business relationship.

To forrard emails to multiple accounts, use the steps above in "Only frontwards certain kinds of letters" to create filters to frontwards letters to dissimilar accounts.

I got a forwarding discover

"Yous are forwarding your mail" notice

If y'all set up automatic mail forwarding using the steps in a higher place, y'all'll come across a notice in your inbox for the beginning week after you turned on forwarding. This is a reminder that forwarding is turned on, and gives you a run a risk to review your forwarding settings.

If yous plough off forwarding, this discover will get away.

"Your filters are forwarding some of your mail service" notice

If you created a filter that forwards certain messages to some other e-mail address, you'll see this notice in your inbox for the first week after you set the filter. This is a reminder that forwarding is turned on, and gives you a adventure to review your forwarding settings.

If you change your filter to stop forwarding messages, the observe volition get abroad.

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